 | Cleanth Brooks, Paul Rand - 1947 - 328 pages
...vision of totality of being and unity of being which occupies the last stanza. What is drudgery becomes "blossoming or dancing where/ The body is not bruised to pleasure soul." In the total activity, one can separate the actor from the action only by an act of abstraction. What... | |
 | Sharon Cameron - 1992 - 280 pages
...simply the ways in which "or" means "and" or "also." Consider Yeats, whose "nor" in effect means "or": Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is...despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to... | |
 | Brian John Martine - 1992 - 140 pages
...stanza will be sufficient to recall its tone and imagery to mind. Labour is blossoming or dancing where Body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born...despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole? O body swayed... | |
 | the late M. L. Rosenthal - 1997 - 379 pages
...growth of the work—just as the different parts of a tree are intrinsic to its whole living identity: Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is...despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole? O body swayed... | |
 | Edward Barrett, Marie Redmond - 1997 - 284 pages
...perspective. What is an interface but a poetic facade? And how do we think about the thickness of the facade? Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is...despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...affection knows, And that all heavenly glory symbolise — O self-bom mockers of man's enterprise; Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty bom out of its own despair. Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. HI O chestnut-tree, great-rooted... | |
 | Patrick Colm Hogan, Lalita Pandit - 1995 - 312 pages
...construction. Yeats's "Among School Children" 2 contains these lines: O self-born mockers of man's enterprise; Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul The adjectival "self-born" strengthens the case for interpreting "labour" in the next line to mean... | |
 | Dan Schiller - 1996 - 296 pages
...How are we to move out of reification's shadow? C HA PTE RFIVE Toward a Unified Conceptual Framework Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is...despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. 0 chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? 0 body swayed to... | |
 | Eva Hoffman - 1996 - 358 pages
...verde. Nell'esaltazione di quei momenti ho la sensazione che la vita scorra proprio nel verso giusto. Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out ofits own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out ofmidnight oil. O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,... | |
 | Paul L. Mariani - 1994 - 558 pages
...lived theology" had perished, and he would have much preferred to write more in the style of Yeats's "Labour is blossoming or dancing where / The body is not bruised to pleasure soul." Yet, in spite of his encounters with Flaubert, Montale, and Rilke, he knew he was still a puritan at... | |
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Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. 
